Woman Robbed In Hotel Elevator

October 11, 1989

CHICAGO — A 48-year-old woman was robbed by a gunman in an elevator in the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe St., Tuesday, and police said the robber is the same man who was responsible for two other attacks in downtown elevators in the last five days.

In the previous attacks, the victims were raped, but in Tuesday`s attack, the victim ``sort of fainted`` and the robber fled taking her $60 but not raping her, Sgt. Richard Jablonski said. Tuesday`s victim, an accountant at the Palmer House, got on the elevator with the eventual robber at 2 p.m. at ground level, Officer Stephen Naughton said. The robber then put a gun to her head and robbed her at the fourth floor.

In the earlier cases, a 27-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted at noon Monday in an elevator at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Last Thursday, a woman was accosted on an elevator in the Borg-Warner Building, 200 S. Michigan Ave., at 2 p.m., forced onto the vacant seventh floor, robbed and raped.